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COMIC #5: New Fun #5 DATE: August 1935 (cover) PUBLISHER: National Allied Publications, Inc. CONTENTS: "Ramblin' Jim" by Stan Randall; "Sandra Of The Secret Service" by Monroe Eisenberg; "Pincus" by Vin Sullivan; "Spike Spalding" by Vin Sullivan; "Don Drake On The Planet Saro", written by Ken Fitch, drawn by Clem Gretter; "In The Wake Of The Wander" (Captain Grim story) by Tom Cooper; "In Far Off China Sits Fang Gow" (Barry O'Neill story) by Leo O'Mealia; "Sonny" by Whitney Ellsworth; "Little Linda" by Whitney Ellsworth; "And So It Goes" (After School story) by Tom McNamara; "Famous Flights", maybe written by Al Whitney; "Shavetail" (text story) by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; "Movies" (text article); "Radio" (text article); "The Nerve Of It" by Vin Sullivan; "Oswald The Rabbit" by John Lindermayer; "Stamps And Coins" (text article); "Fun Mail" (text article); "Buckskin Jim" by Tom Cooper; "Sports" (text article) by Joe Archibald; "The Magdalena Kid" (text story) by William H. Cook; "Slim Pickins" by Stan Randall; "Midsummer Day's Dream" by Leighton Budd; "Mr. Plotz" by E.F. Koscik; "The Professor" by E.F. Koscik; "Bob Merritt" by Leo O'Mealia; "Comic Shorts"; "Treasure Island", drawn by Sven Elven; "The Evil Eye" by Stan Randall; "Fanny"; "Charley Fish" by Vin Sullivan; "Along The Main Line" by Tom Cooper; "New Fun Magic" (text article); "Books" text article; "Fanny"; "Charley Fish" by Vin Sullivan; "Captain Spinacker"; "Wing Brady" by Henry Kiefer; "Children's Page" (activity page); "Junior Funsters" (text story) by Connie Naar; "African Antics" by Dick Loederer; "Caveman Capers" by Dick Loederer; "Jack Woods" by W.C. Brigham; "Man's Inventions" by Henry Kiefer; "Weird Asia"; "Brad Hardy" by Dick Loederer; "Ivanhoe" by Raymond Perry; "In Days Of Yore"; "Jack Andrews" by Tom Cooper; "Midshipman Dewey" by Dick Loederer; "Bright Lights Of History"; "Magic Crystal Of History" by Monroe Eisenberg; "Pelion And Ossa" by John Lindermayer; "2023 Super-Police", written by Ken Fitch, drawn by Clem Gretter. Cover written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, drawn by W.C. Brigham. Editor: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Assistant editor: Connie Naar. Art editor: Dick Loederer. CANONICAL STATUS: Non-canon. SERIES/CREATOR NOTES: With Lloyd Jacquet gone, publisher Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is editing New Fun himself, aided by new assistant editor (and text story contributor) Connie Naar. He's added a couple of new features by series regulars: Along The Main Line by Tom Cooper and Midshipman Dewey by Dick Loederer (whose Caveman Capers appears for the final time). Cooper also takes over the Jack Andrews feature. Leo O'Mealia, who draws Sherlock Holmes and Fu Manchu newspaper strips, takes over Barry O'Neill and debuts new feature Bob Merritt. New artist Monroe Eisenberg takes over Sandra Of The Secret Service, and also fills in on Magic Crystal Of History for an absent Adolphe Barreaux. Gag cartoonist Stan Randall debuts a pair of recurring features: Ramblin Jim and Slim Pickins. Sven Elven, who has the greatest name I've ever seen, debuts a recurring Treasure Island adaptation and will stick around DC for years. E.F. Koscik also debuts, with new recurring feature The Professor. Some of the text in my scan is difficult to read. Best I can do: Jack Woods rescues a woman from a couple of guys with guns whose reason for kidnapping her is never given. Ramblin' Jim is a kid, and in his debut, some guy steals his lunch. This is not the world's most eventful comic. Sandra Of The Secret Service: A couple of guys chase the bad guys that have captured Sandra, who spends the entirety of her titular feature unconscious. Pincus: Some guy paints a barber pole red. I don't know why he does it and I don't know why we are being shown. Spike Spalding: It's hard to read the lettering on my crappy scanned copy, but I think the Pincus kid from the other strip gets kidnapped. Don Drake apparently fights some creepy creatures and then gets abducted by a giant hand? I'm confused, but this might be kind of great. Captain Grim investigates a creepy island. Not much happens. Barry O'Neill gets into a battle in the air that somehow still manages to be boring. Sonny smokes a pipe. Little Linda meets up with police and finds out that the kid she's been watching is getting an inheritance. I'm confused. After School: A bunch of kids play baseball. Famous Flights is just illustrated trivia about flight. Oswald The Rabbit teases some people? I don't follow. Buckskin Jim throws a rock at a sneaky Indian's head. Slim Pickins visits his dead aunt's house, which turns out to be haunted. Ends on a cliffhanger with a creature attacking Slim. "Midsummer Day's Dream" is a very strange strip by Leighton Budd, who as far as I can tell, was an illustrator and animator who by this time was a drunk and at the end of his career. I don't know what's going on in this strip, and leave it to you to judge:
The Professor hires a couple of guys to guard his formula from burglars, and burglars get in anyway. Bob Merritt flies a plane, I guess. "Comic Shorts" is a bunch of gag panels-- one of which doesn't seem to have much of a gag beyond a black woman talking like she's black. "Treasure Island" is not necessary. "The Evil Eye" is a kid making a slight pun about eyes. Fanny accidentally uses shoe paste on her sandwich instead of jam. Charley Fish recruits a black caricature who says things like "yas suh!" with a task that the black guy fails to do properly due to stupidity. Along The Main Line is about a pair of conductors that get a stalled train off the tracks. Why was this made? Why did someone think that qualified as a story? Is the next installment about someone taking a long time to find a ticket but then finding it? Fanny returns, this time to fuck up a coin toss. Charley Fish paints and is bad at it, but at least nothing is racist. Captain Spinacker finds a creature on ice somewhere? Wing Brady's friends try and fail to rescue him from evil Arabs. "African Antics" is actually kind of funny:
In "Caveman Capers", Ur and Wur escape from some sort of winged dinosaur-puppy thing. Ends on a cliffhanger of the duo falling with the caption "ESCAPED- BUT---". Since this is the last Caveman Capers, I assume they died. Jack Woods fights some attackers at a ranch house. "Man's Inventions" is a bunch of trivia about caveman tools. "Weird Asia" is also an illustrated fun-facts thing, this one about the Dalai Lama selection process. The strip is neutral, but the title is off to the side, wagging its finger and scoffing. Brad Hardy fights rat-men. I like that this is probably the weirdest of the adventure strips. "Ivanhoe" is boring. "In Days Of Yore": more illustrated trivia, this time about medieval weaponry. Jack Andrews returns from whatever he was doing before to go back to school. The entire story is just Jack showing up and wondering if he'll be allowed back in. Ends on a cliffhanger of whether or not he will. "Midshipman Dewey": pirate fight. "Bright Lights Of History": trivia about opera. "Magic Crystal Of History": something about a pharoah. My attention span for these strips doesn't even last for a full panel. Pelion and Ossa build a shitty igloo that falls apart. "2023 Super-Police" is hard to follow with the dialogue all blurry. Someone fires a cosmic-ray gun at someone. And that's New Fun #5.
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